Ruth Baumann is a PhD student at Florida State University, & holds an MFA from the University of Memphis. She is the author of one published chapbook, I'll Love You Forever & Other Temporary Valentines (Salt Hill, 2015), & of two forthcoming chapbooks: wildcold (Slash Pines Press, 2016) & Retribution Binary (Black Lawrence, 2017). Her poems are published in Colorado Review, Sonora Review, The Journal, Third Coast & others.